Update of bug #60929 (project groff): Category: None => Device - others/general Summary: Improve documentation of which fonts groff provides by default => device man pages should consistently document font repertoire
_______________________________________________________ Follow-up Comment #1: I propose that device man pages should have a section "Typefaces", relatively early in the narrative (before "Options", I should think) since this is a crucial feature to users, that lists all styles/fonts for which groff ships descriptions by default. (A subsection of "Description" might also be apropos.) * grodvi(1) pretty much has this already, as "Usage". * grohtml(1) does as well. It supports only the four basic styles. * grolbp(1) has it already under the desired section heading. * grolj4(1) has nothing. There is however the entire man page lj4_font(5), which I propose to merge into this one. Even that, however, does not comprehensively enumerate the font descriptions available. So this is the longest pole so far. * gropdf(1) has a list under "Usage", albeit mixed with a great deal of other material, including a huge list of device control commands. * grops(1)'s structure is parallel to gropdf(1)'s. * grotty(1) has this information in a "Typefaces" subsection of "Description". It's similar to grohtml in that it only covers styles. * gxditview(1) has this information in subsection "Default font map" of "Description". I don't know who still keeps an HP LaserJet jacked to their machine (we don't ever get any bug reports about the driver), but it seems like that's the place to start; it will also enable us to kill one of the 3 groff man pages on my Death List (the others are ditroff(7) and groff_filenames(5)). _______________________________________________________ Reply to this item at: <https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?60929> _______________________________________________ Message sent via Savannah https://savannah.gnu.org/